I fell out of love. With skyriding. </3

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After leveling 3 characters 70-80 with gathering, the shine is off the herbs and stones.

I’m just tired of plummeting toward something I can’t see, and I’m tired of “hopping and hoping.”

It would fix skyriding for me if there was a “soft takeoff” and an ability that uses vigor for continued slow smooth flight.

Also I get disconnected about 1/1000x as often when BC flying. Whatever bot movement detection Blizzard has implemented also detects people trying to abruptly change their movement vector.

Skyriding, aka dragonriding, aka dynamic flight, you were okay, but the old ways are best. But I’ll see you every so often when I need to travel a long way and don’t care where I land.

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I don’t mind dragon riding except when picking flowers or mining. It really makes gathering harder otherwise I like it better than traditional flight.

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Same. Gathering or looking for disturbed dirt for globs of wax.

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its great for long distances, but yea gets a little jumpy and wild when flying around town. i just walk everywhere in town now lol

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I truly hate having to hop. The fact that players aren’t able to gently lift off and glide a few yards is a dumb part of the implementation.

520% or whatever it is, is fine for almost everything.

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I always use steady flight for gathering. Much nicer experience for me.

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I tried to like it. I really did. I got good enough at it for gathering, but it’s just stressful and clunky.

I’m not ruling out liking skyriding again some day, but the inability to fly slowly for a little while, wherever I am, is a deal-breaker.

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What is clunky about the old classic steady flight?

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BC flight is inelegant, but works well for precise movement.

Skyriding is elegant, but works poorly for precise movement.

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Yeah I also kind of hate it. It just always feels jarring and too fast and kind of hurts my eyes after a while, honestly. It makes the “relaxing journey” part of the game where you’d normally soak up the environment a blurry task to complete.

The problem is that worlds are now designed around it so traditional flying is like this glacial pace. So I stick with skyriding mostly but man, sometimes I have to switch off.

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haven’t had an issue mining and herbing with skyriding.

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BC flying is about 2/3 as fast, and you can do it hands free, lean back, stretch, and look at the scenery.

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Of course there is someone to say this.

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I like both. For long range I use DF and for Quest hubs or gathering I use BC.

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I switch to Skyriding whenever I want to go hunting for rares. Sometimes, people will share map pins in chat, and it helps to increase chance to get to there before the rare is dead. For everything else, I just use steady flying.

On a side note, the movement of the Hallowfall airship as it flies up through the coreway when you pick a flight master from Hallowfall to Dornogal … hahahaha. So bad.

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Ahahah you just reminded me to take a spin on my old Orgrimmar Interceptor.

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Running out of Vigor and just dropping to the ground feels terrible and needs to be removed.

There should be a baseline level of flying that doesn’t require vigor, that always works and is enough to at least keep you moving and in the air. Vigor is also something that should ALWAYS be recharging, not only recharging under certain conditions.

Birds literally fly across entire continents and oceans… “vigor” should not be needed just to fly. I don’t mind vigor being tied to the special flight functions.

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This reminds me, I’ve thought for a long time that the map should have “thermals” in places, like the ones in Nokhud Offensive.

Some land birds can fly indefinitely in thermals rarely if at all flapping their wings.

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There is a difference between gathering and traveling in this game? I tend to consider them one and the same since virtually any time that I’m traveling I am on the lookout for things to gather on the way.

I’m not just going to ignore that rich bismuth on the way to the dungeon/raid/delve because I’m not in “gather mode” cognitively.

But I also just use skyriding for all of it since I’m guaranteed a vigor back on any stop.

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I do wish the switch between skyriding and steady flying was instant, or half the time at the very least.

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